Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Germany and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Flash Fearless to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Unwound. All the underground hits.
All DJ Sneak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skaos record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Human League,
Godley & Creme,
Ultravox,
Public Enemy,
kango's stein massive,
Crash Course in Science,
Public Image Ltd.,
Leonard Cohen,
New York Dolls,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Cramps,
The Toasters,
Johnny Clarke,
Reagan Youth,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Flamin' Groovies,
Animal Collective,
Young Marble Giants,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Gil Scott Heron,
Hasil Adkins,
John Cale,
Isaac Hayes,
The Mojo Men,
Susan Cadogan,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Black Dice,
The Busters,
Liliput,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Neil Young,
Subhumans,
AZ,
Black Pus,
Ronnie Foster,
David Axelrod,
Freddie Wadling,
Dorothy Ashby,
Boredoms,
the Soft Cell,
Morten Harket,
Mantronix,
Fluxion,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Kevin Saunderson,
Jacob Miller,
Wasted Youth,
Underground Resistance,
The Fall,
Sun City Girls,
Zero Boys,
The Sound,
Japan,
Erykah Badu,
the Slits,
Fela Kuti,
Electric Prunes,
Traffic Nightmare,
Maleditus Sound,
Frankie Knuckles,
Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.